Amlendu Bhushan Khan / New Delhi : Police had to use water cannons to disperse the protesting farmers, who also indulged in sloganeering. Teargas was also used to disperse the crowd. Several farmers injured due to lathcharged of police. Farmers marching towards Delhi as part of the Bharatiya Kisan Union’s (BKU) protest call over demands ranging from farm loan waiver to cut in fuel prices were stopped at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Tuesday with police using water cannons to disperse them.
Meanwhile Home Minister Rajnath Singh met the farmer’s leaders and discussed their demands and have reached an agreement on the majority of the issues. Farmers’ leaders, UP ministers Laxmi Narayan ji, Suresh Rana ji & I will go to meet farmers now said Minister of States Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
The farmers, riding tractors and trolleys, broke barricades of UP Police and then started proceeding towards the barricades put up by Delhi Police, a senior police officer said.
The city police had on Monday imposed prohibitory orders in east and northeast Delhi, anticipating law and order problems as thousands of BKU members are on a march from Hardwar to reach the national capital on Tuesday.
In east Delhi, the prohibitory orders issued by Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Pankaj Singh under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code, will be in force until October 8.
It covers Preet Vihar, Jagatpuri, Shakarpur, Madhu Vihar, Ghazipur, Mayur Vihar, Mandawli, Pandav Nagar, Kalyanpuri and New Ashok Nagar police station limits.
In northeast Delhi, the prohibitory orders were issued by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) Atul Kumar Thakur and will be in force till October 4.
